A very old myth is active today in USA. Yale - Monstropedia http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Yale – But a yale is depicted on the official banner of the President of the University, ... This in its most typical form resembles a lion with a goat's horns.
The word derives from Assyrian root W'L "to ascend", in ial "sacred ibex goat"._ Middle East Studies. Oxford. It is Hindu yali, a horned lion, and the Babylonian ialu "ram". It resembles the beast of Marduk, the main god of Babylon, a snake with ibex-goat horns and lion feet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mušḫuššu
The ialu of Babylon was carried to the Tower of Babel each Spring. The High Priest sacrificed a goat and chucked it into the river to purefy the waters, and the president of Yale Coll. may possibly do this also. Marduk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marduk
